Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-11

dynamite ana Dom0S, and ADVISED the tonng mas
ses to arm themselves against their enemies" and
spare no one not wife nor child in the great strug
| gle for freedom which was going to come.
ma e him bitter foe TO the police. His brother
| William was shot and killed by policeman in the
Of dss VIM Spies ~, was
months before he met his death he was a leader
| In tight by which a farmer living near Chicago
| influence OF the Arbetter Zeitung was yet strong
enough to secure his discharge He went back to
shot and killed while resisting an ofiicer who
wanted TO arrest him. Then August Spies vowed
vengeance upon the police, and he Kept his oath.
| Spies wears good clothes and IS an expert shot,
| Of blood.
A. X. Parsons was a native OF Massachusetts,.
and was about forty-flv years old. He edited
paper called the Alarm last winter, In which he
gave special directions in bomb-thrOwing and the
manufacture OF explosives, following the example
OF Spies and Most, the latter being the writer OF
pamphlet dealing with the methods OF making
in Texas and Was considered a s.dead shot" He
has always been conststt4elA his practices. doing
very little work, ana e5n1sQuently becoming a
cago Mrs. Parsons is quite as ardent an agitator
and advocate OF dynamite as her husband was.
Sne is said TO have indian blood In her veins. She
Is good speaker, and has the facul of carrying
her audience with her to a climax without uring
| Inem Her dlscourseS are generally denunciatons
OF the present order OF society and vague appeals
TO arms
George Engle was a. native Of Germany, having
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January, 1872, he came to America, and afterward
| TO Chicago, where he had since lived, working as
painter. That year he was candidate for the
position OF West Town collector, the SocialiStic
| ticket In the spring Of 1880 he took charge Of
| The business department OF the 4. better Zeitung
| SHORTY afterward assuming the position Of asso-
Adolph Fischer was twenty mine years old, and
mad lived In this country for the past Is years. He
was printer and was employed in that capacity
on the Ar6etter Zeifung at the time OF his arrest
ne " as married and was the father Of two young
children.
samuel Fielden whose sentence was committed
10 Imprisonment for life was born In Lancashire,
England, in 1S47 He worked In a cotton mill
from The time he was eight years old till he reached
his majority. When he was eighteen years Old he
went 10 Wesly n and joined the Methodist Episco-
pai Cnurcn becoming a Sunday-school superin-
tenuenI, ana a1terward local preacher He came
10 the United states in 1865, and after stopping
tnree years In Cleveland took up his residence in
chicago, where he has since resided.
Michael Schwau whose sentence was committed,
was born In Bavaria In 1853. He received good
education, and in 1869 learned the boOkbinder's
trade In WunSenberg, where he became a socialist.
he came to America and also TO Milwaukee in
300: After spending year or two In Milwaukee
writer on the Arbeiter Zeiheng
Louis Llngg, the younge,t OF the condemned
anarchists, VINO died last night from his self-in-
nlcted wounds, was only twenty-three years Old.
lie was born In Baden, Germany, where he was
given common school education. Leaving his
n ia country, he lived few years In SWIVEL
lahu, anu ABOUT three years ago came to America,
ana soon aiterward TO Chicago, where he at once
became Identified with the anarchists. His auto
biography was printed in yesterdays STAR.
Spies ''PrOxy'' Marriage.
On January 30, 1887, Miss Nina Clarke Van
Zandt was married "by proxy" to Spies, the lat
ter's brother acting In his stead. Miss Van Zandt
and Gretchen Spies, the sister OF August, went to
Jefferson and called on Justice Englehardt to get
the proxy, and, having secured the document,
went direct to the county Jail with it. They met
the vile or Spies brother Ferdinand and MIS-.
WenQland Miss Van ZindDS three companions
witnessed the signature OF Spies to the document,
by which he gave full authority to his brother,
Henry w. Spies TO represent him at the ceremony.
Mrs. Ferdinand Spies and Miss Gretchen Spies
signed The paper TO witness August Spies sigma
ture. Then the whole parry, except Spies himself,
went with Ferdinand Spies to Justice En- gle-
hardtS Office on Milwaukee avenue, in the town OF
Jefferson. They were reinforced on the way
by Miss VanZandrs parents and Henry and Chris.
Spies, brothers OF August The journey to Justice
Englehard's Office was made on foot 1t was after
O'Clock Saturday night by this time. The justice
examined his law books, and then the ceremony
was performed. Henry Spies answered to the name
or Aug ust Vincent Theodore SpeS and un ier this
| name was married to Miss Van Zandt The bride
and her parents went from the Office OF the justice
10 the home or Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand Spies, not
tar distant, and remained there over night. Miss
Van Zandt is the only child Of Mr. Jas. K Van Zandt
who holds the position Of chemist In large man
utacturlnS establishment in Chicago, and RESIDES
In handsome house in one OF the most attractive
portions Of the city. The circumstances, as re-
lated by Spies himself, In his CELL are follows:
During the closing days OF the famous trial OF the
anarciS there came into the court room the lady
VINO Is now TO become my wife, Miss Van Zandt
entered the court room when Assistant Prosecutor
lngham was making one OF the closing addresses
10 Inc Jury, and from that day became regular
attendant In the court to the end OF the TRIAL
Finally she visited us In Jail, and formally In
troduced To me by one or our counsel She had
found was neither an ignOramus monster nor
Beast, and we became interested in each other,
until at last we arrived at a mutual agreement"